Layton’s World Answers

Answers available from: a to X (it’s finally over and I didn’t even know until 12 hours later)

The answers and hints can be viewed separately or puzzle by puzzle. Answers and hints (hints in progress / just answers towards the end) to all Layton puzzles will be listed below as they appear:

Puzzle

a – I Have a Puzzle…

Hints:

• Think about the kind of changes that happen when the words apple and pineapple are combined.
• When you look closely, the word combined with apple has a ‘t’ in it, and the word combined with pineapple is in reverse order.
• The word that is combined with apple and pineapple is rats. Place a ‘t’ at the beginning of rats and then read it in reverse order.

Answer:

start

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b – Block Puzzle

 

 

Hints:

• Place the blocks in the frame, and use the letters covered by the numbers n the blocks.
• Fill blocks ‘a’ to ‘g’ with their corresponding letters, and think about the meaning the instruction indicates.
• BEFORE N refers to frames A to M, if you colour the frames (boxes containing letters before N in the alphabet) all black and look at it from a distance, you can see 3 letters.

Answer:

ace

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c – Two’s Company

Hints:

• A specific kind of letter is taken from each of the three words in the pattern.
• Look carefully at the spelling of the word. Letters that appear twice are used.
• Use the letter that appears twice in ‘window’, ‘three’, and ‘bomb’.

Answer:

web

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d – Balloon Puzzle

Hints:

• Consider the relationship between the colour of the balloons and the lines.
• The balloon colours are used to make three blocks. Look at the balloon colours for each block.
• The colours of the balloons on the far left are green, white and, pink. When you trace this out, it becomes an H. Try tracing this out in the same way for the other balloons.

Answer:

hat

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e – Chew on this Puzzle!

Hints:

• Don’t be held back by one perspective. Examine the string of letters from different angles.
• There are only two ways to look at the letters — vertically or horizontally.
• When you turn the string of letters sideways, some sort of sentece appears. Try reading it.

Answer:

red

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f – A Puzzle of Nothing But Hats

Hints:

• Pay attention to the number of each letter written on the silk hats.
• There is only one ‘S’ at the center.
• There are three ‘Cs’, four ‘Us’ and five ‘Ps’ hidden in the silk hats.

Answer:

bat

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g – We’ve Got This Puzzle Surrounded

Hints:

• Letters are inside boxes.
• The way the letters are surrounded and the shapes below them seem very similar.
• Among the seven shapes, the first one has the same shape as the shape that surrounds the R.

Answer:

restart

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h – A Bridge Puzzle

Hints:

• Think about what letters can be placed inside each of the circles.
• The circle joined by one line makes a word of three letters. Think about an English word with three letters related to 1.
• The word ONE is inside the circle joined by one line. Try putting similar words in the circles joined by two lines and three lines.

Answer:

enter

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i – A Curious Math Puzzle

Hints:

• Try hunting for the words ‘Cheddar’ and ‘Cookie’ on the menu.
• The words in the question are displayed on the menu. Try to calculate them according to the formula and see what you get.
• When you do the calculation, the answer will be 0 euros. Search the menu to see if there are any items on it that go for 0 euros.

Answer:

smile

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j – A 3-Coloured Hat Puzzle

Hints:

• Pay attention to the colours associated with the panels.
• It looks like the answer is revealed when making the three colours of the hat. For example mixing red and white yields pink.
• Try mixing blue and yellow to make green, red and blue to make purple, and black and white to make grey.

Answer:

fun

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k – A Puzzle of Straight and Curved Lines

Hints:

• There seems to be something in common missing from inside some of the squares.
• When you add something that wasn’t there, it seems like you get a letter.
• When you add three circles to the second squares from the top, you get the word ‘bag’.

Answer:

god

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l – A Bullfighter Puzzle

My highschool Spanish comes to use (Translation):

1. The bull can only move in vertical or horizontal lines, until it meets a bullfighter.
2. A bull cannot cross the paths where there is another bullfighter or bull.
3. Each bullfighter can only handle one bull.

Hints:

• Try to charge straight up from the bull with only one bullfighter in its path.
• There appears to be only four bulls who charge upwards.
• The bull on the bottom right appears like it rushes upwards.

(Look for letters not covered by a bull’s path)

Answer:

fire

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m – A Puzzle of Fractions

Hints:

• Think of something that there are 26 of.
• The alphabet has 26 letters. The numerator shows which letter should be used.
• The three letters show the name of a country. The top shows France (FRA).

Answer:

korea

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n – A Pizza Puzzle

Hints:

• Take a look at the types of pizzas. The letters seem to correspond to each pizza.
• Choose letters in the order that they appear.
• When you string the letters together, they make an English word.

Answer:

wine

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o – A Puzzle of Fasteners and Fittings

Hints:

Answer:

soup

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p – A Puzzle of Ancient Glyphs

hot

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p – Contemplate 88

@wl_o5

Hints:

Basically flip the shapes corresponding to the colours that are written backwards and then arrange the letters in the order in which the colours are written.

Answer:

life

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r – Full to the Brim

Reading from top to bottom, what can you see?

@DVDfan1

Hints: (How cute)

• Do your best to find it.
• Look carefully.
• Don’t give up.

Answer:

rain

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s – The Mysterious Four Shapes

Hints:

Answer:

star (thank you  my cousin, for guessing the answer)

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t – A Hidden Hint

@シュン

@なお@BOC

Hints:

What’s beneath the spray paint?

Answer:

pen

u –

nice

v –

cool

w –

lesson

x –

dictionary

y – Square Things Away

Answer:

time (Times Square… hahaha) 3rd in the world baby

z –

destiny

A-

sesame

1st in the world

B – Macaroon Mystery

Nishino Kana Twitter

Hints:

Paraphrased: match the macaroons in her hands to the ones in the second picture and look for the corresponding letters.

Answer:

art

C – Animal Antics

Answer:

zoo

D –

glasses

E –

lion (I speak spanish but this puzzle had me absolutely confused until someone posted the recording and I heard the actual instructions, I don’t even know how people figured out the phone number. I also don’t like that they haven’t given a timing for the last two puzzles, I seriously lost out on the bonus picarats)

F – The Mysterious Coloured Balls

Answer:

Ultra

Hint

B – Base

S – Strikes

O – Out

G –

movie

H-

happy

I-

ten

J –

sea

K –

aqua

L – A Magnified Mystery

Hints:

• If you look at the middle of CANDY, you see ‘AND’ and if you look at the middle of MONEY, you see ‘ONE’.
• If you look at the middle of C’AND’Y, you see ‘AND’ and if you look at the middle of M’ONE’Y, you see ‘ONE’.
• The magnifying glass looks at the middle and excludes two letters.

Answer:

ear

M – A Puzzling SOS

Answer:

shoes

N – A Pile-on Puzzle

Thanks Cooro

Hints:

• It looks like each of the overlaid shapes represents a single letter.
• Look at each shape separately: YOGA and CATS have ‘A’. NICE and HORN have ‘N’.
• YOGA and CATS share ‘A’. NICE and HORN share ‘N’. BELT and CATS share ‘T’

Answer:

cage

O-

Answer:

baseball

P-

Thanks Anna

Hints:

• The 3rd and 4th rock from the left are the same weight.
• The first rock is the heaviest.
• The second rock is 2kg. Read the letter of the rocks you placed from left to right.

Answer:

speed

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Q –

Answer:

grape

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R – A Polarizing Puzzle

Answer:

stop

• Think about the red and blue shape. If you figure that out, you’ll understand the two letters needed.
• It’s a magnet.
• Place ‘N’ in the red square and ‘S’ in the blue. Think about alphabetical order for the remainder.

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S – A Window Puzzle

sun

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T – A Place Name Puzzle

queen

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U – A Puzzle in Time

ice (don’t do arithmetic, just remove parts of the numbers that overlap)

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V – Something’s Missing

green (literally the colour green from the Italian flag I presume)

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W – The Korean Mystery

ticket

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X –

Click the triangular shape of puzzle ‘w’ 30 times

Just Answers

a – start

b – ace

c – web

d – hat

e – red

f – bat

g – restart

h – enter (special thanks to Zoe Gallego @three ounces)

i – smile

j – fun

k – god

l – fire

m – korea

n –  wine

o – soup

p – hot

q – life

r – rain

s – star

t – pen

u – nice

v – cool

w – lesson

x – dictionary

y – time

z – destiny

A – sesame

B – art

C – zoo

D – glasses

E – lion

F – ultra

G – movie

H – happy

I – ten

J – sea

K – aqua

L – ear

M- shoes

N – cage

O – baseball

P – speed

Q – grape

R – stop

S – sun

T – queen

U – ice

V – green

W – ticket

X – Click the triangular shape of puzzle W 30 times

My world ranking: #24 [Elinoire] (I really fell in the rankings when college started but I’m happy)

Some tips:

• I am not sure how the point system works but you are awarded extra points beyond bonus picarats depending on the number you are in the world to have answered the question.
• When puzzles are no longer ‘live’ the puzzle will be uploaded to the puzzle page.